Front Street, Working Men’s Club (Mansion House)

HER Number

7022

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Front Street, Working Men’s Club (Mansion House)

Place

Newbottle

Map Sheet

NZ35SW

Class

Domestic

Site Type: Broad

House

Site Type: Specific

Detached House

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Extant Building

Description

House. Early C18. Brick with stone dressings, roof of Welsh slate with red ridge tiles. 3 storeys. Central double door in pedimented doorcase brought forward in modern porch. Sash windows with glazing bars. Raised quoins supporting eaves entablature and corniced roof parapet. 4 end brick chimneys. Interior – some original architraves, well staircase balustrade boarded-in beneath broad serpentine-section handrail. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting

433740

Northing

551500

Grid Reference

NZ433740551500

Sources

Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 7/35; Sunderland City Council, November 2008, Newbottle Village Conservation Area - Character Appraisal and Management Strategy, Consultation Draft; Borough of Sunderland, 1980, Newbottle Village District Plan Written Statement; G.E. Milburn, 1978, Newbottle: An Outline History; K. Richardson, 1989, Houghton-le-Spring and Hetton-le-Hole in Old Photographs